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The Southern Israelite
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLII
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 22, 1967
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Only Synagogue in Jackson Miss.
Blasted By Bomb.
JACKSON, Miss. — A violent
b ’mb explosion last Monday
night blasted this city’s only syn
agogue, making rubble of its
wails and ripping loose sections
of the ceiling. Police quickly ar
rested three suspects.
Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, spiri
tual leader of Beth Israel Tem
ple, said he did not believe the
vandalism was directed at him
personally, although he has been
outspoken against racist out
breaks in the state and has wel
comed Negroes to his services.
It was only a last-minute
3 Men Arrested
switch in his personal plans, the
rabbi said, that prevented him
from being in the synagogue
when the blast occurred.
“I think it was a type of ges
ture,” he said, “somebody just
wanted to show the ‘Jew boys’
what they could do.”
Those apprehended after thie
incident were Joe Denver Haw
kins, 49; his son, Joe Daniel Haw
kins, 23, and J. L. Harper, 23.
FBI agents said Hawkins and his
son have been “publicly identi
fied as active Kb Klux Klan
members for a number of years.”
First Jewish President of
American University
CHICAGO (JTA)—The grand
son of one of the founders of
American Reform Judaism was
elected the first Jewish president
of an American university. The
University of Chicago named Dr.
Edward Hirsch Levi, 56, a native
of Chicago, who received all of
his education at the school, to the
post.
Dr. Levi, grandson of Rabbi
Emil G. Hirsch, will succeed Dr.
George Beadle in the fall of 1968.
Rabbi Hirsch was one of the
university’s first faculty mem
bers. Dr. Levi attended classes
from kindergarten through law
school at the University.
Dr. Levi has been provost, the
chief academic officer at the uni
versity, since 1962. He was
elected to the board of trustees
last year. Dr. Beadle said that
Dr. Levi was “sc clearly and ob
viously the right person to serve
as president that it has been dif
ficult to think seriously about
other possibilities.”
The new president joined the
university law faculty in 1936
and was dean from 1950 to 1962.
During a leave from the law
school he held a number of posts
in the federal Attorney General’s
office and Justice Department.
U Thant Wants UN
As Third Partv
In Peace Parleys
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(JTA)—Finland, Sweden and
Austria submitted a procedural
resolution to the special emer
gency session of the General As
sembly requesting the regular
session of the Assembly to con
sider the Middle East situation
and give it priority.
Secretary-General U Thant
told a press conference that he
believed that the role of the
United Nations as a third party
in the Arab-Israeli dispute was
essential and imperative for a
long time to come.
“I do not see how the United
Nations can wash its hands of
the Middle East situation," he
declared. He said he could un
derstand that some of the parties
would prefer direct negotiations
which would he an “ideal situa
tion.” However, he added, this
was not practical under present
circumstances.
The Secretary-General an
nounced that he was not plann
ing to visit the Middle East in
the near future, and that he did
not see any utility in such a visit
but if it were “deemed helpful,”
he would go, he said.
Families Asked
To Serve as Hosts
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Jewish
Agency officials have called on
Israeli citizens to serve as High
Holy Day hosts to the volunteers
who came to Israel to help dur
ing the May-June crisis and the
Six-Day War. An Agency official
said that 1,000 families were
needed in this city as hosts to
volunteers planning to spend the
holiday here. There are about
6,000 volunteers still remaining
in Israel.
Habitat ’67 Designer
Gets Big Assignment
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Moshe
Safdie, 28-year-old Israeli arch
itect whose revolutionary concept
of design for multiple dwellings
attracted world-wide attention
through “Habitat ’67” in Mon
treal has been commissioned to
design a 600-unit public housing
project in Washington.
Under Secretary Robert C
Wood, of the Department of
Housing and Development, said
Mr. Safdie had been authorized
to try to adapt his design con
cepts to see whether they “come
within the perimeter of public
housing cost.” He has been given
six sites here to consider for a
“feasibility study.”
Fear Czech Return
To Anti-Semitism
PARIS (JTA)—Fear of a re
turn of anti-Semitism to Czech
oslovakia was voiced by the
World Union of Jewish Students.
In a letter to the Czech ambas
sador in Paris, the group express
ed concern over developments in
Czechoslovakia.
As evidence of an anti-Jewish
trend, the students cited the re
cent manifesto for intellectual
freedom signed by 300 Czech
writers and artists which appear
ed recently in the London Times,
and the actions of the Czech
Government in stripping a noted
Czech writer of his citizenship
for expressing pro-Israel views.
United Artists Head
On UN Delegation
UNITED NATIONS, N. 1.
(JTA) — Robert S. Benjamin,
chairman of the board of United
Artists Carp., was nominated a
member of the United States del
egation to the United Nations for
the forthcoming General Assem
bly. Mr. Benjamin is active in
the American Committee for the
Weizmann Institute and many
other Jewish causes.
Near Million for Home for Aged
Raised at Spirited Meeting
By ACOLPH ROSENBERG
The proposed $2,500,000 Jewish
home for the aged in Atlanta is
at least a million short of its
goal—but it has carpet for every
room and lounge the decorators
want to cover “wall to wall.”
This extraordinary gift, mount
ing into the thousands for a 100-
room-plus facility, was one of the
donations pledged Sunday even
ing during a spirited fund-raising
dinner for friends of the Jewish
Home.
Enthusiastic giving by the
group of around 300 men and
women carried the campaign for
funds to up-date, to enlarge and
transfer present facilities serving
the Jewish aged in Atlanta and
several other communities in
Georgia end South Carolina to a
point close to a million dollars.
Dan Garson is chairman of
the fund-raising committee seek
ing $2,000,000 for the building
itself. The additional half a mil
lion (for property, loan retire
ment) will be realized through
sale of the present property lo
cation, now in a top desirability
industrial part of Atlanta. The
sale will probably total more
than half a million but a part
must be used to eliminate cur
rent indebtedness.
Joe Cuba, chairman of the new
building committee, told of the
research and studies made "in
order to crystalize the nature
and services of the new proposed
home, expected to care for twide
the capacity of the current plgde
and fully capable of further ex
pansion. •
Mr. Garson, carrying on the
tradition of his father who raised
the funds for the current home
almost single handed, told of t
spontaneous effort of the Lovable
employees, particularly the top
executives and shop foremen
around 90% of whom are non-
Jew ish. He said;
“These employees, in memory
of my father Frank Garson and
in honor of myself, have pledged
a total of $40,000 over a five-
year period. It is a moving exam
ple of loyalty and communal in
terest.”
The magnitude of the gener
osity of the Lovable employees
was equally as touching for the
Sunday evening audience.
The majority of the funds
pledged at the dinner at Switzer
land House came from leading
Atlanta philanthropists which in
cluded the Garson, Breman, Or-
kin, Weinberg, Weinstein, Lip-
son and Alterman families.
Jewish Home President Bill
Breman told of returning Sun
day afternoon from a visit with
his wife to Asheville for, his mo
ther’s ninety-first birthday. She
too is making a “sizeable and
most generous” pledge in support
of the new Jewish home.
Morris Zelditch, noted national
~ authority fir the ffield of aged
care, told of the studies his group
had made in the arena of sen
ility.
He estimated that in Atlanta’s
approximate population of 18,000
Jews that about 1,800 are 65 or
over.
Between now and 1985, this
number will Increase 40%, he
continued, implying that the com
munity would need to move
swiftly and broadly forward to
meet the challenge.
The situation requires a dif
ferent kind of home than a
boarding house, he said, a place
where men and women can find
dignity, interest, respect and
love.
It must be fireproof, spaciouso
and modem and functional if the
occupant^ are to live as happy
persons.
, He lingered on the aspect of
senility among the aged end how
society has attempted to grope
with this aspect of geriatrics. In
the old days, the senile were
automatically relegated to men
tal institutions and the mortality
was staggering. The techniques
today are different.
In his description of the prop
osed facilities, Mr. Cuba noted
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Mayim, may ini in the Desert
WATER, BLESSED WATER-When Israel captured the arid Sinai,
few water pipelines were found—but the Israeli army, helped
by volunteers, soon remedied the lack. Here, a seven-branched
Menorah spurts life-giving water in celebrating opening of the
new El-Arish-Bir Gafgafa pipeline.
Israeli Firm In $25,000,000 Deal
For Rights to Manufacture Jet
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Israel Aircraft Industry, Ltd.,
one of Israel’s largest industrial
concerns, confirmed this week it
had signed a contract with the
Rockwell-Standard Corporation,
an American producer, for com
plete production rights to a twin-
engined commercial jetliner in a
$25,000,000 transaction.
The aircraft is called the Jet
Commander. Under the agree
ment, the Israeli firm is acquir
ing inventory, planes in produc
tion, tooling units and related
production facilities. The planes
are currently being manufac
tured at the Bethany, Oklahoma
plant of Aero Commander, a
Rockweii-Standard subsidiary.
Israel Aircraft Industry, which
has an aircraft plant at Lod air
port and seven other factories in
Israel, will integrate its produc
tion of the seven-passenger ex
ecutive aircraft with the phasing
out of production in Bethany and
hopes to deliver the jets off its
Lod lines within two years. The
company has 5,000 employes.
It was also learned that the
Israeli firm is now developing a
prototype for the first STOL
short takeoff and landing) plane
in Israel, tentatively named the
“Arava,” which will carry 22
passengers.
The Rockwell-Standard Manu
facturing Company sold its Jet
Commander business because the
Justice Department had blocked
a merger of the company with
North American Aviation Inc., on
grounds that both firms produce
executive jet planes.
Dead Sea Scrolls
Missing from Museum
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Jordanian
museum officials are either un
able or unwilling to report the
whereabouts of four Dead Sea
Scrolls found missing, according
to a group of Israeli experts who
checked the contents of the Pale
stine Archaeological Museum in
the Old City of Jerusalem.
Authorities in Jerusalem be
lieve the Jordanians removed the
scroll fragments for safekeeping
just before the outbreak of the
June war. The priceless materials
are missing, but the showcases in
which they were displayed are
intact Nothing in the museum
was damaged or destroyed dur
ing the six days of fgihting.